Shakespeare said it best, through the soon to be sleep-deprived Macbeth:

"Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care,
The death of each day's lfe, sore labor's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast."posted by kozad at 7:05 AM on May 14, 2007 [1 favorite]

"Eyes in the dark. One moon circles." I can't sleep, that's all I know..."Eyes in the dark. One moon circles.posted by Gungho at 7:29 AM on May 14, 2007

My baby slept through the night for the first time last night (happy Mothers' Day!). I got a solid six hours of uninterrupted sleep -- by far the best sleep I've had in over a year. That's right, I'm bragging about how much I slept last night. Uh-huh.posted by The corpse in the library at 8:19 AM on May 14, 2007

I think it should be "Veux-tu coucher avec moi?"

Or "Est-ce que tu veux coucher avec moi?"

These are both correct, but saying "Tu veux coucher avec moi?" with the proper inflection is no more confusing to Jacques Doe than saying, "You're going to sleep with me?" would be to John Doe.posted by TypographicalError at 8:22 AM on May 14, 2007

Our brains are the most complex computational devices in the world, but they have worse uptime figures than Windows ME. It's probably good that they do all their indexing during downtime, imagine how stupider we would be if we indexed in realtime?posted by parallax7d at 8:59 AM on May 14, 2007

As a finely unemployed citizen, I just want to let you all know I just slept around 14 hours.posted by iamck at 10:13 AM on May 14, 2007 [1 favorite]

As a finely unemployed citizen, I just want to suggest popping a caffeine pill when your alarm goes off. Getting up at the same time each day is a great habit to have.posted by parallax7d at 10:26 AM on May 14, 2007

without amphetamines, no one has ever stated awake for more than 11 days.

its funny that humans have such a fundamental, and overlooked, limitation such as the need for sleepposted by sponge at 10:50 AM on May 14, 2007

Didnt someone write about how sleep may be the default state for animals and wakefulness is an aberration we need to do such things as find shelter, eat, etc? I believe so. I love this idea because now we can honestly ask "How many hours of wakefulness do I need?" as opposed to 'How many hours of sleep do I need?"posted by damn dirty ape at 10:56 AM on May 14, 2007

I recently read a research press release about "big picture" learning (maybe even linked up there: nope, don't see it). The gist was that details could be learned in a day, but connections and big picture stuff were better understood after studying the details and parts, and sleeping on it.

I've been trying this out over the last couple weeks, as I'm studying a lot. And it really works. I understand how all of the concepts I'm learning link together and relate, the next sleep cycle after I really grokked the smaller-scale concept.

"This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go."*posted by Haruspex at 3:33 PM on May 14, 2007

Teece: Same here, much profiting from similar paper I read (different study making people learn stuff, the people who got enough sleep could remember more next day) ...

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